Day in the Life of the Hudson River 10/10/13 Data
(Salt Front RM 169.3)
RIVER MILE 133
River Park, Schodack Island, Troy
Dawn Baldwin, Children’s Museum of Science and Technology
Michael O’Brien, Carroll Hill School–22 students 4rd graders, 5 adults
N 42.482113470199998 W -72.7763160920000002
Location: Schodack Island State Park
Area: 1052 acres – park and boat launch area
Surrounding Land Use: Forested, Boat launch, playground, parking lot, used for
picnics, fishing, open and grassy
Sampling Site: Forested 40%; recreation state park with grass, trees, parking area, picnic
area 40%, boat launch 20% ;
Shoreline: banks altered, rip rap, bulkhead,
Plants in area: minimal amount of plants growing in the riprap, leaves looked like reeds
– less than 1%
Water depth: 4-6 ft. – water is deeper but we are bucketing from this depth
River Bottom: rocky
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Physical
Air Temperature
10:10 AM
54 F
12.22C
54F
12.22C
55F
12.77C
2.5 kts
10:40 AM
11:11 AM
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water Temperature Water depth ~1.5 ft.
Water
Reading 2
Comments
10:40 AM
NW
Beaufort #1
Clouds
Sun broke through the clouds briefly around 10:15 AM
but clouds moved back in quickly
Low 60s – Heavy rain on Monday 10/7 late in day. Mix
of Sun and clouds Tues & Wed
10:00 AM 60 F
AVERAGE
15.55C
60F
60 F
15.55C
17.55C
10:30 AM 59 F
15C
59.5 F
60
15.55
15.28 C
11:00 AM 60 F
15.55C
60F
60 F
15.55C
17.55C
Slightly
choppy
Turbidity – small site
tube
12:30 PM
10 JTU
10
15
Chlorophyll
Chemical
DO
(Drop count kit
pH
(ind. Sol.)
10:18 AM
0.1
10:40 AM
0.0
11:00 AM
9 mg/L*
15.55C
90%
11:00 AM
Salinity - quantabs
Nitrates
10:15 AM
11:30 AM
Fish Catch seine – 15 ft.
X 4 net, 15 ft. pull &
minnow trap (no fish in
trap) – 3 sienes
Seine #1 – 1 fish 12:00
PM
Seine #2 – 2 fish 12:15
PM
Number
Caught
8.0
7.5
7.0
.005/28 X 3
1 ppm
0.05 ppm
1 ppm
Species
Seine #3 – 5 fish 12:30
PM
TOTAL DIVERSITY
CPUE seine #1
CPUE seine #2
CPUE seine #3
Tides
Currents
9:50 AM
10:30 AM
11:10 AM
Traffic
11.67 JTU
average
7.8 avg.
28 ppm Cl-
51 ppm TS
Average 0.83
ppm
Length
Seine
1
Shiner
2 inch
2
Shiner
1.5 inch
5
Shiner
2 inch and
less
1
TOTAL
CATCH
Catch 1
Catch 2
Catch 5
57 cm
42 cm
35 cm
25 cm
10 cm
Not reachable
Cm/sec
30.1 cm
21.8
22.4
Barge
Cargo Ship
8
Noon
12:15 PM
12:30 PM
9:30 AM
10:05 AM
10:17 AM
10:35 AM
11:07 AM
11:30 AM
Cm/30 sec
940
753
672
10:20 AM
10:45 AM
15 ft. pull`
15 ft. pull
15 ft. pull
Falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
Still falling
Knots
0.58
0.42
0.44
0.014
0.029
0.072
0.43 cm/min
0.58 cm/min
0.55 cm/ min
0.46 cm/min
North/South
South/Ebb
South/Ebb
South/Ebb
South/ Light
Great
North/Light Reward
general cargo
Several pleasure craft heading in each direction while we
were watching
Core
Comments/Observations No water chestnut this year. Usually they are abundant.
Only seagulls seen-no other birds
As we approached the river at Schodack Island State Park
Kid’s Comments
Mr. O’Brien’s class from Carroll Hill School in Troy was
very excited! We had discussed the river meeting the
Atlantic and some were surprised that they could not see
the ocean from where we were. A bottle floating by was
mistaken for a shark and someone knew there were
submarines under the water. By days end I was
surrounded by 22 very eager Hudson River Scientists
who were excited to go home and share what they had
learned. With a hug I heard the words “This was the most
exciting day of school in my “WHOLE life”!